It's been a curious month in the garden. Better half has finally got round to painting the garden wall. It was scheduled for earlier in the year but then the loganberries took over and he had to wait for the fruit to finish. It was intriguing watching the play of light onto the bare walls. Just one section left to do and already a great improvement.
Produce has been patchy. A few carrots although hardly worth the effort and all the courgettes are very minuscule. We have a rather odd variety of yellow raspberries which fruit later in the summer.Sweet and delicious.
Not sure what this little bush is but its doing well in its pot. We inherited it from my mother in law and in the years since, the name has disappeared .
Curious seed heads from the flax plant add interest at this time of year. Not sure if I like or loathe them!
Loving the rather faded grandeur of this mophead hydrangea against the vibrant mauve of the streptocarpus. A happy combination.
The top border is rather sparse at the moment although the Gaura is doing a great job of filling the space.
Any stars in your garden?
As usual I join Sarah for her 'Through The Garden Gate'. Click here to see more.
Barbara xxx
Jings, that Trumpet Vine has some brass neck. Sorry!
ReplyDeleteIt certainly does in all senses of the word :)
DeleteYour vase of flowers looks quite beautiful - made to order for a still life artist.
ReplyDeleteThank you. And welcome :)
DeleteSo beautiful! Your garden is glorious! Our weather has turned cool and rainy again after a scorching Bank Holiday weekend. We managed to get in a visit to Lytham Hall as we hadn't been for quite some time. Today hasn't really stopped raining, but the garden is lapping it up. Your little jug of flowers is lovely and that white walk with the palm and bamboo looks positively Mediterranean. Best, Jane x
ReplyDeleteWe too had a spot of rain yesterday, much needed. Back to full sunshine now. Despite the Mediterranean look that bottom bit of garden is very shady.
DeleteGoodness, it's looking lovely out there. The painted wall is beautiful, and your flowers are all gorgeous, especially those coneflowers. The boys are having a cricket-in-the-garden phase at the moment, so nothing is looking good around here. I do have a wisteria in a pot that I am rather fond of though. And dozens of almost black tomatoes - Indigo Rose - that I am almost certain everyone will refuse to eat. CJ xx
ReplyDeleteSurely your boys will love to eat unusual tomatoes! Or you could make them into chutney with a twist. I wonder if it would have a very dark hue? Cricket in a garden is lethal I agree. Hope your precious specimens are well barricaded.
DeleteThat vine is really something. The garden wall does look very nice newly painted. The garden is waning here in our part of Washington state. I don't have any dahlias. Yours are very pretty. Hope the end of August is lovely for you.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ellen. Really loving my dahlias this year. In the pots they seem to suffer less from slug damage.
DeleteYour garden is varied and wonderful. I think I saw a Papyrus, did I? It's a bittersweet time, seeing the last flowers before the cold winds blast them down. Thanks for sharing all your floral and berry varieties. ((hugs)), Teresa :-)
ReplyDeleteThe garden usually lasts well into December thanks to a shelter belt from some mature trees nearby. The papyrus is a bamboo and seems very happy in that spot.
DeleteI love the photo of you holding the carrots. Your freshly painted wall looks fantastic and all the flowers beautiful. Our wisteria is a bit like your trumpet vine; it's been cut back twice already this year but tendrils are still curling through our bedroom window. I'm hoping for some rain here - we had about 4 drops yesterday as I was going for my swim! Something keeps eating my ripe tomatoes in the greenhouse. I suspect something rodenty! xx
ReplyDeleteHope your rodent isn’t Hamish on the loose! Would love to see a photo of your magnificent wisteria; something I’ve never grown but would like to, the smell is always wonderful.
DeleteHow wonderful, you have so much colour and texture in your garden. I think the trumpet vine wants to join you inside the house. Some dark pink roses are lighting up a little area of our garden at the moment:)
ReplyDeleteWe just have white roses at the moment. So many of ours are early flowerers. Dark pink sounds lovely.
DeleteThe trumpet vine and your colourful dahlias and the cone flowers look magnificent! Amazing that you have a foxglove flowering. I think your carrots are good, we have given up with them as our results were less than yours! sarah x
ReplyDeleteThey took such a long time to grow to reach that size!
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